
TheArchersofDarius,fromSusa,endofthe6thcenturyB.C.E.PersiasponsoredtherestorationofJudah.ThesecondtemplewascompletedduringthereignofDarius,kingofPersia.MuséeduLouvre,Paris[
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AncientBabylon,areconstruction.TheNeo-BabylonianempirewasthedemiseofanindependentJudea.Nebuchadnezzar,itsmostnotableruler,destroyedJerusalemin587B.C.E.andtookmanyJudeansprisonertoBabylon.HekeptthemthereinexileuntilCyrusconqueredBabyloniaandfreedtheJews.FromUnger(1931)[
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PrayingJew,byMarcChagall(1887-1985)1923,ArtInstituteofChicago--CGFA
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Hezekiah'sTunnel.ThistunnellinkedthecityofJerusalemwithitswatersource.ItwasconstructedinanticipationofSennacherib'sattack.PhotobyBarryBandstra[
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TellDanHighPlace.ExcavationsatTellDanhaveuncoveredanopen-airsanctuarydatingtothetimeofJeroboam.PhotobyBarryBandstra[
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IvoryPomegranate.ThissmallivorypomegranateistheonlyknownitemfromSolomon'stempleJerusalem,IsraelMuseum[
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ModelHousewithpillars.InlikemannerthetempleofSolomonhadtwopillars,namedJachinandBoaz,thatflankedtheentranceintobuilding(see1Kings7:21).Jerusalem,IsraelMuseum[
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WadiFeiranintheSinaiwildernessisanoasistheIsraelitesmayhavepassedthroughontheirwaytoMountSinai.PhotobyBarryBandstra
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AnthropoidSarcophagi,thatis,human-shapedburialcontainers,inthiscasemadeoutofpottery.FromtheCemeteryatDeirel-Balah,latebronzeperiod:14th-13thcenturyB.C.E.ThesesarcophagishowEgyptianinfluence.PalestinewaslargelycontrolledbyEgyptintheLateBronzeage.EgyptianinfluenceweakenedinthethirteenthcenturyallowingforbothIsraelitesandPhilistinestoentertheland.Jerusalem,IsraelMuseum[
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Fish-shapedVessel,fromaburialcaveinTellPoleg,theSharonregionofPalestine,fromthefirsthalfofthesecondmillenniumB.C.E.Jerusalem,IsraelMuseum[
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